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Day in, day out the FSF looks out for the interest of football fans. But we know you’re all busy people, and won’t have caught every story from 2017, so we thought it’d be worth rounding up some of the more interesting news from Planet FSF during the past year. Read on.
January
The year started with some TV hell – no, the New Year schedules weren’t that bad, although we could live without seeing a...

Festive football costs soar as fans fork out up to £468 to attend matches
Cost of supporting your football club away over Christmas revealed
Away fans will spend more than £170 on average over the festive period watching their team
Plymouth Argyle fans impacted the most paying £468 and will spend 26+ hours on the road
Match-going fans will clock up 32,388 miles seeing their team in action
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Wales travel to Nanning in late March to compete in the four-team China Cup and FSF Cymru are encouraging travelling fans to do their homework.
The Dragons will face the home nation on Thursday 22nd March before playing Uruguay or the Czech Republic in the final or third place game.
Download the FSF Cymru Fan Embassy China Cup Information Guide here...
Thanks to Rick McCharles for the image repro...

A dozen Premier League supporter groups are calling on the competition and its broadcasters to stick to their own deadlines for TV picks in a new petition.
This season the Premier League and broadcasters committed to giving fans at least six weeks’ notice of TV selections but they have now missed their own deadlines for three consecutive rounds of fixtures.
February’s Premier League TV selections ...

(Above - Ledley King collects the Men’s Player of the Year on behalf of Harry Kane)
Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry Kane was named Men’s Player of the Year at the Football Supporters’ Federation Awards in partnership with Virgin Media, which took place tonight in London.
Kane topped the fans’ vote, holding off competition from runner up Kevin de Bruyne. Cesar Azpilicueta, N’Golo Kanté, Hugo Lloris and ...

FSF STATEMENT: AMEX STADIUM INCIDENT
"It's clear from witness accounts and video footage that a number of Crystal Palace fans 'stormed' the turnstiles at the Amex Stadium on Tuesday night.
"There is no excuse for such behaviour and the FSF condemns these actions and reiterates our anti-pyro stance.
"Many of the fans who reported this to us are match-going Crystal Palace fans with tickets who fear...

The Fans for Diversity campaign continues to go “from strength to strength” says campaign lead Anwar Uddin as its third annual report is published.
The campaign is a joint area of work between the FSF and Kick It Out, football's anti-discrimination campaign, to identify and tackle barriers to attending live football amongst under-represented groups.
Anwar Uddin, FSF diversity and campaigns manager...

Football-related arrests have fallen once more and remain at historically low levels, according to Government statistics released today.
There were 1,638 football-related arrests in 2016-17, a 14% decrease of 257 on the previous season – equivalent to just four arrests per 100,000 match-going supporters.
The Home Office figures are the latest to show a long term drop in the number of football-rela...

Media reports this morning suggested that the Premier League is looking into the possiblity of introducing Saturday evening kick-offs in the next TV rights sale.
After consulting with its affiliated and associate members earlier today, the Football Supporters' Federation has issued the following statement in response:
"The FSF notes with concern media reports of a possible significant increase in...

The BBC's annual look at the cost of going to the match has shown that ticket prices are still putting off young people.
More than 80% of young fans polled by the BBC, as part of their Price of Football survey, say that the cost of tickets is one of the main obstacles to attending live football.
Although the survey shows that ticket prices have largely plateaued, with two-thirds of all ticket pric...